3 Healthy Eating Myths You Probably Believe (but are ALL LIES)

by Marci Barker / November 14th, 2018

Sometimes people make healthy eating sound harder than it is. Here are the 3 myths you probably believe about eating healthy. (And they're all lies.):

Lie #1: If you are eating healthy you must be obsessed with your food.

Well let me tell you what! Your mind is about to be blown because my clients are not obsessed about their food. The whole point of learning to eat healthy is being able to incorporate healthy, delicious meals into your every day life.

Let's face it: you have to eat every single day. Are you obsessed with your food right now? Spoiler alert: you don't have to be obsessed with it after you start making better choices either.

The Healthy Eating Challenge is all about teaching people how to make better choices in a fun, sustainable way. We're going to work together to change your eating habits so it becomes natural to reach for healthier options. Being obsessed with your food isn't fun and it isn't part of our program. The whole point of eating healthy is to give you more freedom, more energy and better clarity of mind.

Lie #2: If you are eating healthy you must be judging people who aren't.

My clients are too busy being awesome to judge other people. In fact, I was talking to one of my clients who was holding herself back because she was afraid of being judged. Her current priority is not to lose weight, but to just be healthier and stronger overall. She was nervous that if she pursued her actual goals, she would be judged for not losing weight. One day she had the realization that she is so much more than her weight. In fact, she was the one judging herself, wondering if her efforts would be "good enough."

When you're able to make this realization that YOU ARE AWESOME and are made up of so much more than your weight on the scale, you can free yourself of this fear of being judged. You will realize that as you have confidence in yourself, you won't be spending time judging others and in fact, others probably aren't judging you either.

Eating healthy is part of a bigger journey to amazing confidence and total self-care. Your true competition should be yourself. How awesome would it be to walk into the gym or your own kitchen and have it be “me today vs me yesterday”?

Lie #3: In order to eat healthy, all other aspects of your life have to take a backseat.

WRONG AGAIN! My clients? I can promise you that The Healthy Eating Challenge and all of my other programs are not their life. And they shouldn't be. These programs are simply a means to a more fulfilling life - an ability to truly be present and enjoy everything and everyone in your life. If eating healthy ever takes over your life, then you aren't going about your healthy journey the right way. Healthy choices should enhance your life, they should never take away from your life.

Please believe that YOU CAN DO THIS! Believe that YOU Will be your very own version of fit. Believe that YOU will create your own healthy lifestyle -- YOUR WAY! Believe that nutrition and food can be used to enhance your life, not take over!

Forget the myths and let’s get real about your Fun and Sustainable path. Registration for the Healthy Eating Challenge is closing soon. If you haven't signed up yet, you really should.

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